[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Removing .la files

[Dexter Morgan]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:41:46PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote:
>> Le vendredi 10 juin 2011 à 03:47 +0300, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
>> > On 9 June 2011 19:35, Dexter Morgan <dmorganec at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > as other distributions we started to remove .la files from mageia
>> > > during mageia 1 development.
>>
>> Could you explain the rational of removing them ?
>>
>> AFAIK, the .la removal was not discussed, so starting by saying "we
>> remove them now because last time, we didn't discussed and it broke lots
>> of thing" is a little bit weird.
>
> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles
>
> Seems some distributions misunderstand the need and changed the wiki
> page. Removing .la files is needed however, otherwise you'll quickly mix
> distribution installed libraries and self-compiled libraries.
>
> Difficulty is that this only works when you remove *all* .la files. If
> only one is left compilation is broken.
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
>

i will try a new way to remove them and btw we maybe should add a
rpmlint reject to reject packages with la files inside . but not yet
as we may need to still build some the time of the transition.